Reports are that the Queensland Government will today announce that the 6 week snapper ban for South East Queensland and the southern Great Barrier Reef will not be repeated next year. But a new sustainability plan, to reviewed in three years, will reduce the bag limit from 5 to 4 and restrict the number of fish over 70cm to one. A voluntary online monitoring program will also be introduced. While sense has prevailed on the ban, there seems to be little detail on how the declining snapper stocks and loss of habitat is gong to be addressed.
More details after the release today.
